Where is the system tray. Nagios says that if I installed the Widows Agent for Nagios on the windows machine properly that I will:see a new icon appear in the system tray. It will be a yellow circle with a black M inside it. Is the systems tray the box in the bottom right hand of your computer screen? And once I have edited the NSC.INI file should I restart the windows box for it to start monitoring it? Below are the steps I am working on and I will highlight the ones I am confused about:
Installing the Windows Agent Before you can begin monitoring private services and attributes of Windows machines, you’ll need to install an agent on those machines. I recommend using the NSClient++ addon, which can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nscplus. These instructions will take you through a basic installation of the NSClient++ addon, as well as the configuration of Nagios for monitoring the Windows machine. 18 1. Download the latest stable version of the NSClient++ addon from http://sourceforge.net/projects/nscplus 2. Unzip the NSClient++ files into a new C:\NSClient++ directory 3. Open a command prompt and change to the C:\NSClient++ directory 4. Register the NSClient++ system service with the following command: nsclient++ /install 5. Install the NSClient++ systray with the following command (’SysTray’ is case-sensitive): nsclient++ SysTray 6. Open the services manager and make sure the NSClientpp service is allowed to interact with the desktop (see the ’Log On’ tab of the services manager). If it isn’t already allowed to interact with the desktop, check the box to allow it to. 7. Edit the NSC.INI file (located in the C:\NSClient++ directory) and make the following changes: Uncomment all the modules listed in the [modules] section, except for CheckWMI.dll and RemoteConfiguration.dll Optionally require a password for clients by changing the ’password’ option in the [Settings] section. Uncomment the ’allowed_hosts’ option in the [Settings] section. Add the IP address of the Nagios server to this line, or leave it blank to allow all hosts to connect. Make sure the ’port’ option in the [NSClient] section is uncommented and set to ’12489’ (the default port). 8. Start the NSClient++ service with the following command: 19 nsclient++ /start 9. If installed properly, a new icon should appear in your system tray. It will be a yellow circle with a black ’M’ inside. 10. Success! The Windows server can now be added to the Nagios monitoring configuration... Very Respectfully, Christy M. New 1(404)327-6490 American Cancer Society Corporate IT-NHO NOC Network Infrastructure Engineer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
